Among the World’s Best As Canada’s global university, UBC measures its success against universities worldwide, consistently placing among the world’s 40 best -- and the top two in Canada.

At 36th in 2006, UBC has ranked in the top 40 for the fourth consecutive year in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Higher Education ranking, a survey recognized by the Economist as being “the most widely used annual ranking of world universities.”

Newsweek magazine placed UBC at 27th in its 2006 Top 50 Universities issue.

UBC moved up to 38th place in the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement international ranking.

UBC ranked ninth among North American research universities as a “patent powerhouse” in a 2005 U.S. survey of the Life Sciences conducted by The Scientist, and was the only Canadian institution in the survey.

UBC holds the top position for overall Canada Foundation for Innovation funding among the country’s research universities, and ranks second nationally for Fellowships of the Royal Society of Canada, Steacie Fellows and Guggenheim Award recipients.

Read on to learn more about UBC's accomplishments in 2005 / 2006. The Annual Report is also available as a PDF.

An archived version of UBC's 2005 / 2006 Annual General Meeting is available -- see www.ubc.ca/agm for more information.